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...you’d imagine trying actively to slouch his shoulders and hunch his back to avoid drawing unwanted notice; the same player who tries to minimize his frame off the field and downplay his own talent and successes on it the same way he walks under the ill-designed doorframes that have plagued him his whole life...
...deliberate targeting of civilians; and the sheer scale of the operation. Despite the government's professed certainty of ETA's guilt, doubts began to creep in. Then on Thursday evening, Acebes announced that in Alcala de Henares, a town about 19 miles northeast of Madrid where three of the ill-fated trains had originated and which the fourth had passed through, police found an abandoned white Renault Kangoo van containing seven copper detonators and a tape of Koranic verses recited in Arabic. That discovery harked back to the hours after the attacks in New York City and Washington on Sept...
...children at work for fear that "people won't think you're a professional," she observes, younger women "feel more entitled to ask for changes and advocate for themselves." That sense of confidence is reflected in the evolution of her organization's name. When Brundage founded it in Elmhurst, Ill., 17 years ago, it was sheepishly called FEMALE, for Formerly Employed Mothers at Loose Ends...
...train to Montauk on the frosty tip of Long Island. There he is accosted by free-spirited Clementine Kruczynski (Kate Winslet, ornery and seductive). She lures mopey Joel into an affair, which proves to have as many abrasive spots as soft ones. Truth to tell, they're a wildly ill-suited pair. But, hey, bitter with the sweet...
Like most Indian kids, Prabhu wanted to play pro cricket. He may have fallen short on the field, but he's hitting a six in the suites. Tellabs, the Naperville, Ill., telecom-gear maker (2003 sales: $980 million) that sells data systems and voice enhancers, recently named him CEO. The board is betting on a repeat. When Prabhu, 49, was boss of Alcatel USA, a division of the French telco, revenues increased fivefold, to about $5 billion, over his three-year tenure...